Bending and fitting the C-bout ribs.
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Making purfling picker and scraping the ribs to final thickness. Tool sharpening and shelf building day! Flattening the blocks and shaping them Gluing the blocks to the mould (one drop of wood glue for each!). Finishing the f-hole template. Beginning to joint the practise back-piece. Violin wood arrives! Begin to plane up practise back-piece (sycamore from a timber merchants) with my new plane donated by the kindly Neets from upstairs. Splitting and shaping the blocks from Tulip wood. Making sharpening stone holder. |
~ Alfie Gidley ~I began apprenticing with Hannah in September 2013 and have taken photos of every single stage of the violin making process. Archives
December 2013
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